The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Recently, we added another powerful tool to our arsenal: neural networks for video downscaling. In this tech blog, we describe how we improved Netflix video quality with neural networks, the challenges we faced and what lies ahead. How can neural networks fit into Netflix video encoding?

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Hyper-V plays a vital role in ensuring the reliable operations of data centers that are based on Microsoft platforms. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users. This leads to a more efficient and streamlined experience for users. Instead, they interact with the applications that are hosted on Hyper-V.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. As cloud complexity grows, it brings more volume, velocity, and variety of log data. When trying to address this challenge, your cloud architects will likely choose Amazon Data Firehose.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Now let’s look at how we designed the tracing infrastructure that powers Edgar. Reconstructing a streaming session was a tedious and time consuming process that involved tracing all interactions (requests) between the Netflix app, our Content Delivery Network (CDN), and backend microservices.

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VoltDB

APRIL 25, 2024

To move as fast as they can at scale while protecting mission-critical data, more and more organizations are investing in private 5G networks, also known as private cellular networks or just “private 5G” (not to be confused with virtual private networks, which are something totally different). billion in 2022.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 10, 2024

As a result, organizations are implementing security analytics to manage risk and improve DevSecOps efficiency. Security analytics combines data collection, aggregation, and analysis to search for and identify potential threats. Teams can then act before attackers have the chance to compromise key data or bring down critical systems.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. Here are the six steps of a typical ITOA process : Define the data infrastructure strategy.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 28, 2021

Infrastructure monitoring is the process of collecting critical data about your IT environment, including information about availability, performance and resource efficiency. Many organizations respond by adding a proliferation of infrastructure monitoring tools, which in many cases, just adds to the noise. Worth noting?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Central engineering teams enable this operational model by reducing the cognitive burden on innovation teams through solutions related to securing, scaling and strengthening (resilience) the infrastructure. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure. Canaries ), detection and improved KPIs.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

IT infrastructure is the heart of your digital business and connects every area – physical and virtual servers, storage, databases, networks, cloud services. We’ve seen the IT infrastructure landscape evolve rapidly over the past few years. What is infrastructure monitoring? . Minimizes downtime and increases efficiency.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 13, 2023

Log auditing—and its investigative partner, log forensics—are becoming essential practices for securing cloud-native applications and infrastructure. The massive volumes of log data associated with a breach have made cybersecurity forensics a complicated, costly problem to solve. What is log auditing?

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Dynatrace

JULY 2, 2020

Large enterprise environments are often distributed across multiple data centers around the world. Unnecessary traffic between such data centers can result in wasted resources, unpredictable downtimes, and lost business. preventing unrelated traffic between data centers and regions. optimizing traffic routing.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 8, 2024

This blog explores how vertically integrated risk management solutions that use AI and automation enable unparalleled visibility, control, and efficiency for risk management in banking. Optimize the IT infrastructure supporting risk management processes and controls for maximum performance and resilience.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Log data provides a unique source of truth for debugging applications, optimizing infrastructure, and investigating security incidents. This contextualization of log data enables AI-powered problem detection and root cause analysis at scale. Dynamic landscape and data handling requirements result in manual work.

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Percona

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It simplifies infrastructure management and is the driving force behind many cloud-native applications and services. Kubernetes manages and orchestrates these containers, handling tasks such as deployment, scaling, load balancing, and networking.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Dynatrace and the Dynatrace Intelligent Observability Platform have added support for the newly introduced Amazon VPC Flow Logs to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. This support enables customers to define specific endpoint delivery of real-time streaming data to platforms such as Dynatrace. What is VPC Flow Logs? Why Dynatrace?

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data. This feature-packed database provides powerful and rapid analytics on data that scales up to petabyte volumes.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Key Takeaways A hybrid cloud platform combines private and public cloud providers with on-premises infrastructure to create a flexible, secure, cost-effective IT environment that supports scalability, innovation, and rapid market response. The architecture usually integrates several private, public, and on-premises infrastructures.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing. Bandwidth optimization: Caching reduces the amount of data transferred over the network, minimizing bandwidth usage and improving efficiency.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

With more organizations taking the multicloud plunge, monitoring cloud infrastructure is critical to ensure all components of the cloud computing stack are available, high-performing, and secure. Cloud monitoring is a set of solutions and practices used to observe, measure, analyze, and manage the health of cloud-based IT infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As global warming advances, growing IT carbon footprints are pushing energy-efficient computing to the top of many organizations’ priority lists. Energy efficiency is a key reason why organizations are migrating workloads from energy-intensive on-premises environments to more efficient cloud platforms.

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Dotcom-Montior

APRIL 23, 2021

This is where email infrastructure comes in handy. While you have limited control over user interaction with your emails, monitoring email infrastructure is in your hands. Email infrastructure usually consists of your server and domain configuration, server performance, IP address, mail agents, and more. Mail Agent.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software analytics offers the ability to gain and share insights from data emitted by software systems and related operational processes to develop higher-quality software faster while operating it efficiently and securely. This involves big data analytics and applying advanced AI and machine learning techniques, such as causal AI.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Nutanix overview dashboard The extension automatically gathers real-time performance data from your Nutanix clusters to monitor resource usage, cluster health, and more, all in one place. Dynatrace, in tandem with the Nutanix extension, simplifies performance monitoring and makes issue identification and resolution more efficient.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 10, 2023

EdgeConnect provides a secure bridge for SaaS-heavy companies like Dynatrace, which hosts numerous systems and data behind VPNs. EdgeConnect facilitates seamless interaction, ensuring data security and operational efficiency. Efficiency and control EdgeConnect boasts a range of features designed for efficiency and control.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 12, 2024

This article analyzes cloud workloads, delving into their forms, functions, and how they influence the cost and efficiency of your cloud infrastructure. These include popular technologies such as web servers and web applications, along with advanced solutions like distributed data stores and containerized microservices.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 11, 2024

This article strips away the complexities, walking you through best practices, top tools, and strategies you’ll need for a well-defended cloud infrastructure. Cloud security monitoring is key—identifying threats in real-time and mitigating risks before they escalate.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 8, 2024

This article delves into the specifics of how AI optimizes cloud efficiency, ensures scalability, and reinforces security, providing a glimpse at its transformative role without giving away extensive details. Using AI for Enhanced Cloud Operations The integration of AI in cloud computing is enhancing operational efficiency in several ways.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Container orchestration allows an organization to digitally transform at a rapid clip without getting bogged down by slow, siloed development, difficult scaling, and high costs associated with optimizing application infrastructure. Like Kubernetes, it allocates resources efficiently and ensures high availability and fault tolerance.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Figure 1: Host coverage overview This data is used to complete the topology in Smartscape. Efficient service discovery and automatic recommendations As soon as OneAgent is deployed on previously unmonitored hosts, it shows all findings gathered with lightweight eBPF Service Discovery.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 22, 2021

While today’s IT world continues the shift toward treating everything as a service, many organizations need to keep their environments under strict control while managing their infrastructure themselves on-premises. Exceeded throughput levels can be a sign that some changes to the network configuration might be required.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Complex cloud computing environments are increasingly replacing traditional data centers. In fact, Gartner estimates that 80% of enterprises will shut down their on-premises data centers by 2025. ITOps teams are responsible for establishing, maintaining, and growing a reliable, high-performing, and secure IT infrastructure.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 6, 2023

Kubernetes enables efficient resource utilization by easily scaling applications and services based on demand. Networking. Large-scale, multicloud deployments can introduce challenges related to network visibility and interoperability. Bad actors can use misconfigurations to gain access to sensitive data. Self-healing.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 18, 2024

Following FinOps practices, engineering, finance, and business teams take responsibility for their cloud usage, making data-driven spending decisions in a scalable and sustainable manner. Empowering teams to manage their FinOps practices, however, requires teams to have access to reliable multicloud monitoring and analysis data.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Increased adoption of Infrastructure as code (IaC). IaC, or software intelligence as code , codifies and manages IT infrastructure in software, rather than in hardware. Infrastructure as code is also known as software-defined infrastructure, or software intelligence as code. and 2.14.1.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Data supports this picture. Companies that exploit these technologies can discover risks early, remediate problems, and to innovate and operate more efficiently are likely to achieve competitive advantage. Adopting these capabilities can eliminate manual work and identify cyberthreats that pose risk to data and applications.

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